scott walker, many of you remember that he survived a recall election over the summer. so quite the panel. thank you all for joining me the morning. do you sense since you are all more or less outside washington, that there is a split between how governors mayors, folks that have particular causes look at republicans in washington and how they look at the republican party? >> i think there's no doubt about it. i think there's a lot of pessimism unfortunately. but you get out around the country, bob and i like to make this point a lot. even though the president won a re-election in november, there are now 30 states across america that have republican governors. when you think about reform, welfare reform, tax reform, it happened at the state level and local level. while we need to change the climate here in washington. at the same time, i can look around this table and say you won, first governor ever to win a recalled bid, a recalled call. and you are in a very conservative state, in a conservative spot. you are in a conservative state, so you all were kind of fine, and